Everything we know about Inzoi—the first major Sims competitor to finally launch

Inzoi - Two Zois in wedding attire walk down an outdoor ceremony arm in arm
(Image credit: Krafton)

It's finally about to happen: Inzoi is about to launch, leading the charge of new games like The Sims for our chronically underserved dollhouse-core gaming community. One thing that Inzoi is really getting right is the amount of communication that its game director Hyungjun "Kjun" Kim has with players in its official Discord server. But all that chatter has made it a little hard to nail down what features are actually coming in time for its early access release, which will arrive later, and which are still a sparkle in Kjun's eye.

Down below I've got all the details you really need to know about Inzoi, from its post-delay new release date to confirmed gameplay features, system specs, and a comparison of features with The Sims 4 to help you keep track of what to expect.

Inzoi release date

When is the Inzoi release date?

Inzoi launches in early access on March 28, 2025. It was originally expected at the end of 2024 but was delayed just a bit into spring of this year.

"This change in our release date represents our dedication to giving Inzoi a stronger foundation, so we can embark on this journey together in the best way possible," game director Hyungjun Kim said in the delay announcement from November.

Inzoi gameplay

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What's the Inzoi gameplay like?

Inzoi will feel very familiar to Sims series fans. There's a character creator for building your family, a build and decorating mode for designing homes, and a live mode simulation for enacting all your dramatic schemes.

The concept in Inzoi is that you're a new employee at a place called AR Company where you're managing and controlling the lives of digital people called Zois. So aside from the usual three game modes we're used to in life sims, Inzoi allows a lot of extra world settings control like determining the level of cleanliness, natural disaster, and other factors in a city along with editing the city decor itself.

Here's just a quick overview of features I've spotted in months of keeping tabs on Inzoi's demo videos:

  • Open world and ability to control any Zoi at any time
  • Three cities at launch: Dowon (Korean-inspired), Bliss Bay (US-inspired), and Cahaya (Indonesian-inspired)
  • WASD or point-and-click control of Zois
  • Eight basic Zoi needs: hunger, hygiene, bathroom, fun, social, energy, sleep, and "recognition"
  • Active play jobs for Zois where you'll complete a list of tasks
  • A karma system
  • Spreading rumors, trends, and colds
  • Drivable cars
  • Auto-save functionality
  • Difficulty settings for relationship progress
  • Support for mods and custom content
  • A user-content gallery called "Canvas"

(Image credit: Krafton)

Inzoi and Sims 4 features comparison

Life sims are a big prospect so there are a lot of features to come to grips with. Not to mention, a series of playtest videos from creators and routine communication from Inzoi's developers on its Discord have made it a little hard to parse what's actually going to be in the game for early access, what's planned for later, and what isn't planned at all.

I won't cover absolutely everything, but here's a look at some popular features from The Sims 4 and Inzoi for comparison:

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Feature

Inzoi

Sims 4

Open World

Multiplayer

Being "considered"

Mods and CC

Player creation gallery (Canvas)

Same-sex marriage

Drivable cars

Committing crimes

Customizable furniture

Paranormal or "occult" characters

Will have limited-gameplay ghost zois

Pets

After launch

In DLC

Build limit

30 floors

8 floors

Life stages

6: child, teen, young adult, adult, middle-aged, senior

8: newborn, infant, toddler, child, teen, young adult, adult, elder

(Image credit: Krafton)

Inzoi's character creator is extremely pretty

One thing everyone's drooling over is the Inzoi Character Studio. There's no arguing that it's super beautiful and lifelike and I think it's going to be extremely popular with the "alpha CC" segment Sims fans who enjoy glossy, perfect faces.

When trying it myself, I found that the lifelike face textures made for some really great creations but there were some things lacking in that demo that I'd have liked to see, like various types of piercings and height sliders.

(Image credit: Krafton)

Inzoi's furniture is customizable

This is a feature from The Sims 3 that I've sorely missed in The Sims 4 so I'm really looking forward to customizing decor in Inzoi. For each object you'll be able to set the colors and patterns for different materials along with pattern scale and level of glossiness. You'll be able to make furniture as beautiful or as uncanny as you'd like.

How Inzoi is using AI

Krafton is leaning pretty heavily into experimenting with various AI systems—across the board, it seems, including in Inzoi. Here are the AI-based features we know about in Inzoi so far:

  • Pattern creation: A generative AI system that will use text prompts to create patterns for clothes or artwork for walls to use in-game
  • "3D Printer": Uses photos of real life objects and turns them into in-game 3D objects that you can decorate a house with
  • Smart Zoi: Using Nvidia's "Co-Playable Character" tech will let Zois using this feature make autonomous decisions about how to act based on their personality and change their own daily schedule each night in response to their experiences

Inzoi system requirements

(Image credit: Krafton)

Inzoi system requirements

Izoi's recommended and minimum specs are worth paying attention to. Even if you only want to run it on minimum settings, you're going to be struggling if you were running The Sims 4 on the same toaster of a laptop for 10 years. For recommended specs you're going to need *checks notes* a newer GPU than mine, unfortunately.

Recommend specs:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10/11
  • Processor: Intel i7 12700, AMD Ryzen 5800
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 3070 (8G VRAM), AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 75 GB available space

Minimum specs:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10/11
  • Processor: Intel i5 10400, AMD Ryzen 3600
  • Memory: 12 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2060 (8G VRAM), AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 60 GB available space
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Lauren has been writing for PC Gamer since she went hunting for the cryptid Dark Souls fashion police in 2017. She accepted her role as Associate Editor in 2021, now serving as self-appointed chief cozy games and farmlife sim enjoyer. Her career originally began in game development and she remains fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long fantasy books, longer RPGs, can't stop playing co-op survival crafting games, and has spent a number of hours she refuses to count building houses in The Sims games for over 20 years.

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